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The Cultural Background Meme:
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How does your character's cultural background effect their experience on the meatship? Their thought patterns? Has it led to any hilarious misunderstandings? Basically this is the meme where you expound on the culture your character came from.

If your character is from the 20th/21st century "first" world and not otherwise a cultural minority then expound on how they percieve the cultural backgrounds of other characters too.

Comments

[governorkang]

Kang's entire race was created to be shock troops in a war, and were taught from birth that mercy is weakness, and weakness is death. They were forced to fight and kill clutch-brothers for food, in the belief it'd make them stronger, and had awe and respect for their human caretakers and commanders ingrained pretty much from the moment they hatched.

The humans in the dragonarmies treated them pretty much like shit, though. Oftentimes, they were called 'lizardmen' or 'dumb beasts', and forced to serve as infantry (cannon fodder, basically) or perform menial tasks such as latrine duty. They're actually very intelligent, having dragons as parents, and by the end of the war, most, if not all of them had lost the reverence they'd initially had for humans. Hell, half of the reason for the fall of Neraka right at the end was because they'd had enough of it.

...so, Kang really doesn't like it when humans treat him as if he's stupid, or try to use him. Otherwise, he's at least okay with most everyone, as long as they treat him like an equal. Even though he's the Lord-Governor of a nation, he's pretty chill, and likes a good conversation or party. It's just a job to him.

The Dark Knights, former allies, tried to kill off the entire race when they found out about the females being retrieved, so, uh, he really doesn't like betrayal much either. As in, he's 99% likely to kill you on the spot.

Draconians are very militaristic, and they are not squeamish at all about killing or violence. Their sense of humor tends to be rather crude, too, though Kang keeps himself polite when dealing with females of other races. Diplomacy is a wonderful thing.

Oh, and he's kind of :| about elves. Nothing personal, but it's hard to shake off ingrained prejudices.